Hello, I'm Brian
Senior product and front-end engineer with 13 years delivering customer-facing software, integrations, and regulated financial workflows. Extending that background into applied AI with a shipped RAG assistant and ticket classifier, and a documentation assistant and run-inspection tool in progress.
Available for product engineering roles · Chicago, IL · Remote OK
Featured Projects
Latest Work
Impact estimates are illustrative, modeled on the workflow each project targets, not measured client results.
Ask TanStack Query
A source-grounded assistant over the official TanStack Query docs. Ingestion and retrieval are underway, with 270 documentation pages chunked and embedded. Next are deployment and scored evaluation against real GitHub questions.
Est. impact: In progress, built in public: a grounded docs assistant with an evaluation pipeline, documented day by day on the blog.
Run Explorer
A dashboard I am building to inspect application runs: a step-by-step timeline of what happened, filters to find the failure, and an AI failure brief that cites the recorded steps. Its first customer is Ask TanStack Query.
Est. impact: Aims to shorten the time it takes to find the failed step in a run and understand it from recorded evidence.
Digital Onboarding at Marex
Led the digitization of broker and trader onboarding at a financial services firm, replacing a compliance-heavy paper workflow with an end-to-end digital process and integrating DocuSign across products.
Est. impact: Delivered with compliance, operations, and trading teams, and a five-person front-end team.
Latest Writing
Blog
Deep dives into building AI applications, enterprise integrations, and customer-facing products. From architecture decisions to production deployment.
Where I've Been
Experience
Independent Product Engineer
Dec 2025 – PresentInsolla (Consulting and portfolio development) · Chicago, IL
- ›Delivered an automated content pipeline that cut a business owner’s weekly workflow from 8 hours to 10 minutes.
- ›Built and deployed Salesforce Intelligence, a live RAG assistant over CRM data.
- ›Built Ticket Triage, comparing keyword rules with structured OpenAI outputs across labeled development and holdout examples.
- ›Building Ask TanStack Query, a source-grounded documentation assistant in Python, FastAPI, pgvector, and Next.js.
- ›Building Run Explorer, an accessible run-inspection dashboard in React and TypeScript.
Lead Front-End Developer
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025TerraFort (Freelance)
- ›Led design and development of an early-stage web and mobile platform from concept through delivery.
- ›Owned vendor evaluations and scoped third-party and AI integrations with UX, product, and backend teams.
Senior Front-End Developer
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025OCC (Contract) · Chicago, IL
- ›Ran weekly stakeholder sessions at a systemically important financial market utility, aligning goals, demonstrating progress, and resolving questions across workstreams.
- ›Delivered React and TypeScript solutions from Figma through testing, QA, and production.
- ›Implemented Mock Service Worker to unblock front-end development from backend dependencies.
Lead Front-End Developer
Oct 2020 – Jan 2024Marex · Chicago, IL
- ›Led digitization of broker and trader onboarding, replacing a compliance-heavy paper workflow with an end-to-end digital process.
- ›Partnered with compliance, operations, and trading teams to scope rollouts and support adoption.
- ›Integrated the DocuSign API across products to support digital document signing.
- ›Led a five-person front-end team and designed and ran the team’s internship program.
Earlier Experience
What I Know
Skills
AI Applications & Retrieval
Python & Backend
Integrations & Automation
Cloud Deployment
Customer Discovery & Delivery
Front-End Development
On My Bookshelf
Currently Reading
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
Chip Huyen
A guide to building real applications on top of foundation models.
Mastering Technical Sales: The Sales Engineer's Handbook
John Care and Aron Bohlig
A handbook on technical sales and the role of the sales engineer.
What People Say
Testimonials
Brian and I worked together on the User Experience team, where he was brought in to assist with front end development of our UIUX projects. He did a great job of quickly jumping in to the mix to work on several of our internal projects, bringing a willingness to learn and a positive attitude to every project. He is also very eager to suggest new approaches to projects and brings an innovative, forward-thinking mindset. He is a talented, energetic and very enthusiastic developer and would be a great asset to any team.
Brian is a hard working & focused user interface and user experience developer. In our time working together at R1, Brian was consistently dedicated and focused on complex projects, often times putting in significant extra work to help the team meet deadlines. He worked equally well with local teams in the office as well as teams based in India. Good teammate that will help you bring your UI/UX to the next level.
From LinkedIn, earlier in my front-end engineering career.